The Best Thing That Can

Visitation Street Is Urban Opera Writ Large. Gritty And Magical, Filled With Mystery, Poetry And Pain, Ivy Pochoda’s Voice Recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, And Even Alice Sebold, Yet It’s Indelibly Her Own.

The Ornament Of Beauty, Shakespeare Wrote, Is Suspect. And He Was Right. But Beauty Itself, Unadorned And Unaffected, Is Sacred, I Think, Worthy Of Our Awe And Our Loyalty.

He Wondered If This Was What Clinical Depression Felt Like, A Total Numbness, A Weary Lack Of Hope.

... Scarred By Wisdom She'd Never Asked For.

When I Was Young, I Asked My Priest How To Get To Heaven And Still Protect Yourself From All The Evil In The World. He Told Me What God Told His Children;'you Are Sheep Among Wolves, Be Wise As The Serpent, Yet Innocent As Doves.